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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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We understand through resemblance.
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Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.
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Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.
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With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.
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Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
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What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.
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Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
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Beggars market their incapacity.
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Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.
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Diplomats lie with a heavy sense of destiny.
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What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.
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Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.
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In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.
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Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.
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The tranquility of my room partakes too much of Forest Lawn.
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The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.
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If there is no harm in asking, why guilt and fear when we do so?
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